Hi everyone. Magical Garbage is a podcast mini-series about fantasy storytelling and the enchanted

things that helped make us who we are. I'm doing this mini-series in celebration of my new novel,

Skipshock, which is out on June 5th, and it's a story about love and time travel and parallel worlds

and the moment in your life when you realize that you can't really be on the

fence about things anymore. That you've got to love with your whole heart and fight with your whole

heart and on one occasion violate the rules of a nude bathhouse with your whole heart. I'm so proud of

this book. I think it's so fun and exciting and I would be so honored and delighted if you could

pre-order skip shock from any brick and mortar-mortar bookseller of your choice.

I'm sure you know this already, but pre-orders are so important in the early stages of a book success.

So if you're going to buy the book anyway, please think of a pre-order as a special favour to me,

the girl who's been talking to you from this recording booth for seven years.

Okay, on with the show.

Hello and welcome to Magical Garbage, the podcast where we talk about the dystopian realities

that made us who we are. My name is Caroline and I'm the deadly berries that either mean

everlasting love or bloody revolution.

And joining me is the district tribute who painted herself to look like a rock.

It's Tracy Thomas.

Yay!

Hi! Thanks for having me. I'm so excited.

Oh my goodness. I haven't been nervous about a podcast in a while. Like, I'm like you. I've been doing

this for a bit, you know? There's not that much that phases me anymore, except for when something

means so much to me and so much to other people and that when you know so much about a subject

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